The Bolt Report on Channel 10 Sunday at 10am and 4pm

[nero_bolt]

Dont forget to watch The Bolt Report every Sunday  on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm

Join Andrew Bolt, one of Australia's most read, most topical newspaper columnists, as he addresses today's political and social issues through opinion commentary, panel discussion and interviews.

This week

Abbott’s deficit tax. Sacrifice or suicide?

My guest: Amanda Vanstone, former Howard Government minister and member of the Commission of Audit.

The panel: Michael Kroger and Cassandra Wilkinson.

NewsWatch: Rowan Dean.

So much to discuss: destroying the handout mentality, the deficit tax and growing corruptions scandals. Plus:  the menace of Clive Palmer’s money and the arrest of a man who quoted Churchill in public.

And this: is Labor’s what-budget-crisis? strategy clever politics or a reckless betrayal of the national interest?

Your Say and more.

The videos appear here.

[cherry*135]

Abbott's problems go deeper than Bolt realises

Andrew Bolt is worried. The Abbott Government has, he says, "a serious problem". They are lagging in the polls and unless they do something drastic, they are going to stay that way.

His is one of those tough-love columns those on the Right like to write occasionally in order to gird the loins of those on their side of politics.

To be fair, Bolt is certainly read and respected by the Coalition, so he is within his rights to think his little truth bomb will have some effect.

Indeed, some of what he says is fair enough. But what I want to highlight here is the fact that he misses the wider significance of his own assessment.

Most interestingly, the solutions he offers betray a fundamental misreading of the underlying problems faced by not just the Abbott Government, but Australian political parties in general.

The fact that governments of different political stripes end up suffering from the same shortfalls speaks not to something unique to a given party, but an underlying weakness in the political substrate.

Remember, both Rudd 1 and Abbott himself came to power with fairly decent majorities, were ostensiblyswept into office on the back of electoral dissatisfaction with their predecessors, and yet both very quickly fell into a heap, shedding internal coherence and public confidence in equal measure.

This is hardly a coincidence. In fact, it is part of a wider trend in Western democracies, where political parties, long the basis of democratic governance, are no longer able to command the authority they once did.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-21/dunlop-abbotts-problems-go-deeper-than-bolt-realises/5908856

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@nero_wulf wrote:

On The Bolt Report on Channel 10 on Sunday at 10am and 4pm.

Editorial: The great hoax: the five inconvenient truths about Barack Obama’s climate deal with China.

My guest:  Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Putin and our presidency this month of the Security Council. 

The panel: Cassandra Wilkinson and Michael Kroger.

NewsWatch:  Gerard Henderson on one of the most pathetic and outrageous ABC smears yet.

So much to discuss, including the latest warming hysteria, the Palmer circus, * the looming Budget disaster, ** the media siding with our enemies and more.

The videos of the shows appear here.

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* that's serious. Those economists were right when they declared Hockey's budget a FAIL right from the start.

* that's funny

[icyfroth]

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Listening to some coalition party sycophant ejaculate praise on a gang of narrow minded morons is not entertainment. Must be a blast living in your house nero

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For someone who professes to despise Bolt and his show you certainly show a great deal of preoccupation with both. What are you afraid of?

[nero_bolt]

On the year’s final The Bolt Report on Channel 10 on Sunday at 10am and 4pm.

Editorial: Call out the wreckers

My guest:  Christopher Pyne, Education Minister and Leader of the House

The panel: former Labor campaign guru Bruce Hawker and Janet Albrechtsen of The Australian

NewsWatch:  Sharri Markson, media editor of The Australian.

The real battle and who’s ahead. The Palmer United Senator who could surprise. Is the Senate a time bomb? Who flopped and must go?

Note: Bill Shorten and Christine Milne have refused every invitation to come on this show. Funny, that they could miss this wonderful chance to prove me wrong in front of my own audience.

The videos of the shows appear here.

[nero_bolt]

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@am*3 wrote:
20 October 2014 - Barrow vs Bolt defamation trial - VIC Supreme Court

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Sucks to be you and  wrong again

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/andrew-bolt-defamation-case-man-who-tried-to-sue-ordered-...

Andrew Bolt defamation case: Man who tried to sue ordered to pay $500,000 in legal costs

A DISENDORSED Family First candidate’s attempts to sue columnist Andrew Bolt over an email sent to two people has backfired with a judge ordering him to pay $500,000 in legal costs.

David Barrow, a former Family First candidate, refused several settlement offers including an early offer that he walk away without paying anything to finalise the long-running matter, but is now facing financial ruin after the matter went to trial.

Justice Terence Forrest this morning delivered a robust judgment before ordering Mr Barrow to pay $500,000 toward the legal costs of Mr Bolt and his employer, the Herald and Weekly Times.

[polksaladallie]

What's the bet that it will be the year’s final The Bolt Report and the century's final Bolt report.

[alexander*beetle]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

On the year’s final The Bolt Report on Channel 10 on Sunday at 10am and 4pm.

Editorial: Call out the wreckers

My guest:  Christopher Pyne, Education Minister and Leader of the House

The panel: former Labor campaign guru Bruce Hawker and Janet Albrechtsen of The Australian

NewsWatch:  Sharri Markson, media editor of The Australian.

The real battle and who’s ahead. The Palmer United Senator who could surprise. Is the Senate a time bomb? Who flopped and must go?

Note: Bill Shorten and Christine Milne have refused every invitation to come on this show. Funny, that they could miss this wonderful chance to prove me wrong in front of my own audience.

The videos of the shows appear here.

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lol Sounds like a bit of sour grapes on Bolt's part. Who in their right mind would go on a show where you wouldn't get an ounce of respect or a fair hearing. Wonderful chance. haha. 

[icyfroth]

Loved today's show, last one for the year.

Like the way he tussles with Bruce Hawker

re the Walkely awards with Sharri Markson:

Women of the Year, all Labor. Figures.

Scoop of the year: Spying on the Indonesian Govt. Anything, as long as it goes against the Abbott govt, never mind that it was set up under the Rudd (Labor) govt.

[cherry*135]

How many invitations has Abbott refused for TV shows ..where guests are asked questions? He wouldn't want to be seen on National TV saying 'um ah and and and um er and and and um'' every time he was required to speak.

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am*3 wrote:
20 October 2014 - Barrow vs Bolt defamation trial - VIC Supreme Court

nw
Sucks to be you and wrong again

Nothing at all wrong with the statement I made above. What a childish response.